I’m pretty sure that both me and my dogs are virtue ethicists at heart. I don’t think natural selection had any sort of a way to code in any other kind of morality, nor does it seem likely that natural selection would have anything to gain by even trying to code in a different kind of morality.
Yes, I presume or really post-sume having read a lot of random stuff that the bulk of my moral sentiments are 1) inborn, 2) started being put in us long before we were humans and 3) are indeed sentiments. I think moral sentiments are the human words for what make mammals socially cooperative.
My dogs are pretty loyal and protective. It is hard for me to see that and not see an essence of the morality of group cohesion. Your mileage may vary.
I’m pretty sure that both me and my dogs are virtue ethicists at heart. I don’t think natural selection had any sort of a way to code in any other kind of morality, nor does it seem likely that natural selection would have anything to gain by even trying to code in a different kind of morality.
Yes, I presume or really post-sume having read a lot of random stuff that the bulk of my moral sentiments are 1) inborn, 2) started being put in us long before we were humans and 3) are indeed sentiments. I think moral sentiments are the human words for what make mammals socially cooperative.
My dogs are pretty loyal and protective. It is hard for me to see that and not see an essence of the morality of group cohesion. Your mileage may vary.
I’m so retweeting your first sentence. Do you have a twitter?
I’m mwengler on twitter. I’ll tweet it with hashtag #puppyethics and you can find it and retweet it.